Dr. ZHANG Xiaojun is a lecturer at the University of Stirling. His research interests include computational linguistics, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and machine translation. He has published eight monographs or translated works and many research articles in international journals such as Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Applied Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Language learning & Technology and Language in Society, as well as Chinese journals including China Translators’ Journal and Contemporary Linguistics. He holds memberships in various academic associations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Chinese Information Processing Society of China. He is also a council member of Shaanxi Province Translators’ Association.